Lead Quality Engineer

JOB TITLE: Lead Quality Engineer 

SALARY: £70,929 - £80,000  

LOCATION(S): Edinburgh  or Leeds 

HOURS: Full time 

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of the above locations.

About this opportunity  
Join us as a Lead Quality Engineer, you'll use your technical skills to support the delivery of quality software solutions into production. You’ll be continually challenged, motivated, mentored and supported to develop your skills and bring forward the best solutions to conduct effective testing.
 
You'll need technical literacy, experience in automated/manual testing, eagerness to learn, strong communication skills, and a focus on quality services. This role will require coordination with multiple 3rd party & LBG teams, with a focus on quality and alignment to standard methodology. A willingness to get stuck in and learn on the job is essential.
 
Work alongside other Quality Engineers to help enhance their skills and experience, giving support, mentoring and coaching to ensure the future of engineering within LBG remains strong!

About us

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you. 

What you’ll need 

Technical: 

• Experience creating and implementing Quality Engineering strategies and plans with an Automation First approach where appropriate. 

• Strong Quality Engineering skills utilising tooling into day-to-day task management, from JIRA / X-Ray / Confluence. 

• Extensive knowledge of FNZ CSP application to drive investigation into issues and drive process improvements within test delivery. 

• Good knowledge of Test Data provisioning within CSP and understanding and driving the Live Data Compliance processes; management and co-ordination of test Environments would be advantageous.

• Experience of implementing DevOps principles (CI/CD) and using tools including Jenkins, Git, SonarQube. 

• Knowledge on current automation trends/tooling, with domain expertise to improve & build our current automation suite and our speed to market. 

• Experience implementing a Playwright / Typescript framework with hands-on experience designing and implementing tests. 

• Experience of Defect Management, Incident Management, Root Cause Analysis and/or Config Management working with multiple JIRA boards & different status would be advantageous.

• ISTQB Foundation Certification and Advanced Certification (or willingness to work towards Advanced certification).

Change Delivery and Non-Technical: 

• Expertise on Pensions, Insurance and Banking Domain in a complex client-facing environment with exposure to workplace pension products. Experience of managing change on the FNZ platform is a must. 

• Experience of agile change methodologies including Scrum and/or Kanban. 

• Experience in working in a fast-paced and often changeable environment, where priorities can change daily.

• Expert level skills in Test strategy, Test planning, Test estimation and impact assessment analysis. Experience of functional system testing, integration testing, user acceptance testing and non-functional testing including performance and automation. 

• Extensive knowledge and Proven track record on End-to-End Test Management across major programmes and exposure in leading a large quality assurance team. 

• Ability to work with multiple teams in an end-to-end environment to prove testing, which includes an understanding of Data API/Data Warehouse functionality, finance systems, Digital systems, propositions (outputs) and associated print and pack. 

• Proven ability to coach and develop other test engineers with experience working in a mentor role. 

• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build working relationships both internal and external to the bank. 

• Experience in Test estimation, Impact analysis, Budget planning and proposals.

• Exceptional communication, presentation, business writing and professional skills, including being able to bridge both technical and business collaborators. 

• Experience in Technical Writing – E2E Test Plan, Testing Closure reports & Creating Weekly and Daily Testing status reports.  

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We’re disability confident. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance

• Share schemes including free shares

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.